Scale Development
Theory and Applications
3rd Edition
Published on 20. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-4129-8044-9 (ISBN)
Description
A best-seller in its previous editions, Scale Development: Theory and Applications, Third Edition has been extensively updated and revised to address changes in the field and topics that have grown in importance. Widely adopted for graduate courses in departments such as Psychology, Public Health, Marketing, Nursing, and Education, this book will prove beneficial to applied researchers across the social sciences.
Reviews / Votes
"Scale Development is readable, concise, and affordable. Students like the book. It presents formulas but doesn't emphasize them but rather emphasizes utility, and the book is well-suited for an audience with applied interests." -- Kathy E. Green "The key strength of this text is its ability to present the basic and necessary background on scale construction and measurement for the subsequent material, either in the context of the same first-year graduate course or in future courses during a masters and PhD program." -- Rene Bautista "The author has a very nice writing style that makes reasonably complicated technical concepts clear to students who are accessing them for the first time." -- Catherine Horn "This book does an excellent job in explaining complicated topics in test construction at a level that students can understand. The use of specific examples that demonstrate key points is very effective." -- Jonathan FeldmanMore details
Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
255 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-8044-9 (9781412980449)
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Person
Robert F. DeVellis is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Health Behavior (Gillings School of Global Public Health) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. DeVellis has more than 40 years of experience in the measurement of psychological and social variables. He served as the first domain chair for Social Outcomes of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) consortium, a multisite National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap initiative directed at identifying, modifying, testing, and disseminating outcome measures for use by NIH investigators. He has served on the Board of Directors for the American Psychological Association's Division of Health Psychology (38), on the Arthritis Foundation's Clinical/Outcomes/Therapeutics Research Study Section, and on the Advisory Board of the Veterans Affairs Measurement Excellence Initiative. He is the recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals and is an associate editor of Arthritis Care and Research. In addition, he has served as guest editor, guest associate editor, or reviewer for more than two dozen other journals. He has served as principal investigator or co-investigator since the early 1980s on a series of research projects funded by the federal government and private foundations.
Content
Preface
Chapter 1. Overview
Chapter 2. Understanding the Latent Variable
Chapter 3. Reliability
Chapter 4. Validity
Chapter 5. Guidelines in Scale Development
Chapter 6. Factor Analysis
Chapter 7. An Overview of Item Response Theory
Chapter 8. Measurement in the Broader Research Context
References
Chapter 1. Overview
Chapter 2. Understanding the Latent Variable
Chapter 3. Reliability
Chapter 4. Validity
Chapter 5. Guidelines in Scale Development
Chapter 6. Factor Analysis
Chapter 7. An Overview of Item Response Theory
Chapter 8. Measurement in the Broader Research Context
References